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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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Values determine behavior Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
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The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.
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Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.
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Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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